In one play, this woman escapes Theoclymenus by pretending to carry out a ritual burial of her husband at sea. The rumor of that husband's death comes to her from Teucer, who washes up on the Egyptian shore shortly before her husband. In the Aeneid, 
In one play, this woman escapes Theoclymenus by pretending to carry out a ritual burial of her husband at sea. The rumor of that husband's death comes to her from Teucer, who washes up on the Egyptian shore shortly before her husband. In the Aeneid, a section originally left out by Virgil's literary executors sees this woman seeking sanctuary at an altar of Vesta, where she is nearly killed by Aeneas. In a more traditional myth, this figure's husband was not shipwrecked but landed at the Egyptian island Pharos, where he consulted (*) Proteus about the sacrifices necessary to get home safely. In another story about this figure, she was left with Aethra in Athens after becoming the target of a plan to acquire divine wives carried out by Theseus and Pirithous. Two of her siblings were fathered by Tyndareus with her mother Leda, though her father was Zeus in swan form. For 10 points, name this wife of Menelaus whose abduction caused the Trojan War.
In one play, this woman escapes Theoclymenus by pretending to carry out a ritual burial of her husband at sea.
{Helen} of Troy